Cal-Orchid Special 2018 Summer Hummer Sale We know that not everyone gets to come to the nursery and join in all the fun so here is our famous SUMMER HUMMER SALE OFFERING! Many of these plants are being offered at a one-time special price & on a first come, first served basis and in limited numbers. Do not look for them at these prices here at the nursery. Read over everything and then just email us with your selections and a phone number and we’ll call you to complete your order! It’s that simple! They will disappear quickly though. (CYM growers: Sorry everything has just been re-potted! You’ll have to wait for our Open House!!) Email: [email protected] (805) 967-1312 1251 Orchid Drive Santa Barbara, Ca 93111 Aerangis Elro We have been lucky to import a few more plants of the spectacular Aerangis hybrid (modesta X platyphylla) from $75.00 So. Africa. These will not be available in the future. Fantastic long pendulous sprays of flowers with extreme spurs. FRAGRANT! Flowering size. Aerangis mystacidii One of the nicest of Aerangis species. Very miniature growth. Can be mounted or grown in pots. $15.00 Lovely tessellated foliage. Flowering size, in pots, many in spike. Aerangis (mystacidii X kotschyana) A new hybrid made by Peter Lin. This should be an exciting cross for unusual flowers on long sprays, some with peach $20.00 tints, thanks to the kotschyana. Best mounted when mature. Nice small seedlings. Angraecum didieri This is one of the more common Angraecums although it is still one of the best. Small stature, vigorous growth habit & $15.00 large flowers; what could be better? An amazing gardenia fragrance at night. Spring and Summer bloom. Temperature tolerant - Flowering size seedlings. Bc. Green Bird Super nice novelty hybrid between Bc. Binosa and B. Little $15.00 Stars. Large unusual green flowers highlighted by a large white lip with purple spots. Cool ‘rat tail’ leaves. Grows like a weed! Near flowering size. Blc. Shinfong Little Sun ‘Young-min Golden Boy’ AM/AOS A really great miniature cattleya for the early Spring season. $20.00 Large clusters of brilliant orange flowers with a red dot on the lip. Very strong grower. Flowering size. Bulbophyllum phalaenopsis If you are a serious orchid grower, then you must grow this unbelievable species. Long, wide, glaucus green leaves. $50.00 Deep red flowers emerge in huge clusters and are covered with yellow hairs. Super ‘fragrant’ of a rather unusual odor. Eventually, pot yours up into a hanging basket. Near flowering size. Cymbidium Kris Kallman An outstanding seedling cross featured in our 2018 Santa Barbara Orchid Show exhibit. Beautiful, shapely flowers in $30.00 various shades of green. Highlight is the striking, large white lip boldly marked in deep red. Arching to pendulous spike habit. Really something new and exciting in miniature cymbidiums. Flowering size seedlings. Cymbidium tracyanum ‘Sterling Sweet’ AD/CSA We have a few nice divisions of this exceptional variety of this wonderful species from the Himalayas. Very exotic $50.00 flowers with unusual stripes and little shape highlighted with a furry lip on long arching sprays. Very fragrant. Near flowering size in gallon pots. Dendrobium Royal Wings One of the nicest of the white Latouria dendrobiums. It is a very nice cross of Roy Tokunaga X Silver Wings. Flowers $15.00 are white with bars and spots that easily stay in bloom for a many months. Nice seedlings. Dendrobium victoria-reginae A truly magnificent strain of this species made for us by Tom Perlite of Golden Gate Orchids. It is a cross of ‘Blues $30.00 Brothers’ with ‘Royal Blue’ AM/AOS. These are the darkest blue forms we have ever seen. Flowering size seedlings. Encyclia cochleata One of the first epiphytes ever described and still popular today, even as a houseplant; they are that easy to grow! Super unusual ‘squid like’ green flowers bloom sequentially $20.00 on long stems. Large plants are in bloom all year! A true conversation piece. (Syn.Prosthechea cochleata) Nice near-flowering seedlings. Epidendrum Package Always popular, our Epidendrum hybrids will brighten any collection. This package will have 5 of our newest seedlings $40.00 in a rainbow of colors. (No colder than 40 degrees please.) THIS is a limited special price offer for this flyer only. New single growth seedlings 6-8” tall. Laelia anceps Package Three super nice seedlings featuring one of our best breeding plants: Laelia anceps ‘Rosminah’ JC/AOS $75.00 (Pictured). It is crossed with 3 different tetraploid L. anceps to produce some of the finest L. anceps anywhere. Excellent for coastal gardens, mounted on trees! Near flowering size seedlings at special price. Lc. Black Forest ‘Dark Splendor’ We’ve offered this before, but it is so good we wanted to showcase it again. Pushing new growths in fresh bark. A $20.00 truly rewarding miniature plant, boasting a very large, full- shaped, deep plum red flower on very compact plants. (L. pumila X Blc. Edisto) Temperature tolerant - Flowering size meristems. Lc. Callistoglossa semi-alba This is an antique hybrid re-made by our friend Matt Bond $15.00 with truly great modern cultivars to yield semi-albas. Cross of L. purpurata with C. warszewiczii. Summer season. Temperature tolerant - Nice new seedlings. Microcoelia stolzii ‘Kathy Fenwick’s Medusa’ CHM/AOS We do not grow a more exotic species that this Microcoelia from Africa. It makes a spectacular mass of roots covered in $65.00 small white flowers in season. Special Summer Hummer price. Limited number available at this price. Flowering size divisions. Neostylus Lou Sneary ‘Blue Horizon’ Our finest Neost. Lou Sneary so far! Very dark blue flowers on a nice long spike. These are $35.00 beautiful, large, multi-growth plants with spikes initiating. Fantastic display of hanging roots. You will enjoy the most fantastic fragrance - like frosting. Limited number available at this price. (Some even larger plants available @ additional price please inquire.) Oncidium pumilum If you like miniature orchids, then this is the plant for you. Very short ‘mule ear’ succulent leaves form striking small clumps. Branching sprays of brilliant yellow flowers on $20.00 branching spikes. Can be mounted or potted. Near flowering size. Limited Paphiopedilum Helen Congleton Very nice community pots of approximately 20 seedlings of a remake of this wonderful Parvisepalum hybrid. It is a $75.00 cross of Norito Hasagawa with delenatii. Compot. Limited availability. Platycerium elephantotis Perhaps our favorite Platycerium species. Once known as Plat. angolensis, this is a great plant from Africa. Leaves grow into huge appendages resembling elephant ears. Not $65.00 particularly cold hardy (to 40 degrees) but many people are growing them in SB outdoors with protection. Nice seedlings (+/- sample picture) Redwood mounts. Plectrelminthus caudatus Maybe the largest flower of the Angraecoids. They always look eerily pre-historic to us. Very attractive plants with soft $35.00 emerald green leaves. Native to West Africa, it prefers it warm and humid. Maybe best grown in a basket to allow for its huge, lush roots. Nice seedlings. Limited Pot. Satomi ‘Yasooi’ X Pot. Jump For Joy ‘Rounder’ Some new seedlings for those who enjoy standard cattleyas $15.00 but are a loss for a source. A proven breeder from Japan crossed with our own huge & shapely, pink Jump for Joy. Near flowering seedlings. Sarcochilus Package This genus is getting more and more popular for its ease of growth and compact size. Mature plants are covered with $35.00 flowers. This package has three different, beautiful seedling hybrids that will produce lovely flowers in the pinks to red shades. Temperature tolerant too! Nice seedlings. .